Quotes on Know Yourself

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions.

Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for being proud. Ignorance and inexperience are the pedestal of pride; once the pedestal is removed - pride will soon come down.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

If knowing yourself and being yourself were as easy to do as to talk about, there wouldn't be nearly so many people walking around in borrowed postures, spouting secondhand ideas, trying desperately to fit in rather than to stand out.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Everything changes radically from the moment you know yourself as being sent into this world.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.